Behind the Scenes: How "Old Ironsides" Became Fiction for America's 250th
Since you're reading this via easterntribunal.com, it's worth pulling back the curtain on how this particular story came together. The starting point wasn't a plot, it was a question: what happens to a symbol like "Old Ironsides" once the anniversary it's tied to actually arrives? That question shaped the research before a single scene was drafted — pulling on the ship's real history, the way historical vessels are actually maintained and reimagined, and the gap between how a nation memorializes something and how it might live on in fiction. The result sits inside the larger Dex System Semiquincentennial series, where each title takes one piece of American history and asks what it looks like as a living story rather than a static one. The research shows up in the details more than the headlines.
Also new from AM I AM Publishing: E-Drive: The Good Ghost, available now on Thalia. Claude helped shape some of the research behind this piece.
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